Eight Key Lessons for Rocket-Shipping AI Products | Redpoint Ventures
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Jordan Segall
Partner at Redpoint Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Jordan Segall is a Partner at Redpoint Ventures, a prominent venture capital firm in San Francisco, California. With a background in both investing and entrepreneurship, Jordan has successfully invested in various early-stage companies, including Restate, Highlight, and Speakeasy, showcasing a strong track record in identifying and supporting promising startups.
Having held roles as Partner and Principal at Redpoint Ventures, Jordan has leveraged his expertise in project management, leadership, and strategy to make impactful investments in sectors such as Data Services, Consumer Internet, and AI, contributing significantly to the growth and success of the companies he has supported.
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Principal
2021 - 2023
Redpoint Ventures has partnered with some of the leading technology companies at the earliest stages for the past 20 years, including Snowflake, Stripe, Twilio, Hashicorp, CockroachDB, Looker, Ramp, SentinelOne, Netflix, NextDoor, PureStorage, and more.
Redpoint partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones at the seed, early, and growth stages.
Investor
2023
Foundry is a public cloud supported by an orchestration platform designed to simplify the utilization of AI computing resources.
Raised $80,000,000.00 from Sequoia Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Lightspeed Venture Partners, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Conviction VC and Redpoint.
Board Observer
2021
The easiest way to deploy infrastructure. Led the Seed while at Unusual and Series A while at Redpoint.
Railway is a startup that builds and develops software deployment platforms tailored for engineers.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Guillermo Rauch, Nicholas Donahue, David Mytton, Redpoint and Tom Preston-Werner.
Board Observer
2022
A dropin replacement for Redis/Memcache. Led the seed.
Board Observer
2022
A portable devkit for CICD pipelines from the founding team of Docker.
Good-bye "push & pray". Write your pipelines in Go, Typescript or Python. Run locally or in CI. Iterate in seconds, not minutes.
Raised $30,000,000.00 from Ellen Pao, Quiet Capital, Y Combinator, Nat Friedman, Redpoint, Idit Levine, Julius Volz, Brian Stevens and Daniel Lopez.
Seed Investor
2023
Board Observer
2021
Leading Data Detection & Response solution
Cyberhaven is a software company that provides technology to trace and protect the flow of data.
Raised $136,500,000.00 from Khosla Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, Redpoint, Gerhard Eschelbeck, Adams Street Partners, Vertex Ventures, Crane Venture Partners, Amol Kulkarni, Ash Devata and Costanoa Ventures.
Seed Investor
2020
Based on the leading open source data labeling solution called Label Studio. Led the seed.
HumanSignal offers data labeling software and annotation tools to build accurate and smart AI products.
Raised $29,000,000.00 from Unusual Ventures, Redpoint, Bow Capital, Swift Ventures and Gleb Mezhanskiy.
Seed Investor
2019
Custom AI-based telephony stack to 10x sales without needing to increase headcount. Chosen by the founders to be a Board Observer prior to transitioning firms.
Orum is the AI-powered Live Conversation Platform to supercharge sales activity, connect teams, and drive more revenue
Raised $51,000,000.00 from Craft Ventures, Unusual Ventures and Tribe Capital.
Seed Investor
2021
Open Source attack surface management solution comprising one of the most popular set of security products.
ProjectDiscovery is an open-source software that simplifies security operations for engineers and developers.
Raised $26,700,000.00 from Rain Capital, Point72, Caleb Sima, Accel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Talha Tariq, Mango Capital, CRV, SignalFire and Guillermo Rauch.